Great mission, poor leadership. - Anonymous employee UNHCR Employee Review

2.0
24 Oct 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great mission, good salaries for management, stocked kitchens with snacks

Cons

Poor management skills across the board, poor hiring practices, waste lots of money that should go to cause, toxic environment, rude staff

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5.0
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Pros

Best Mandate to see people of Concerns benefit. opportunity to be in an international team

Cons

instability of employment contract and job opportunities

3.0
7 Apr 2026
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Pros

Good benefits, you really do help people

Cons

Human Resources takes a highly specialized approach to talent management. In that you cannot really change functions easily in UNHCR. You have to hyper-specialize in one area. So if you are a protection staff, you tend to burn out from trauma without an internal mechanism to alleviate the burnout. The higher you go in UNHCR, the crazier you become.

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